GMAT Argument 139重新选题
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收起The following appeared in a speech by a stockholder of Consolidated Industries at the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting:
“In the computer hardware division last year, profits fell significantly below projections, the product line decreased from 20 to only 5 items, and expenditures for employee benefits increased by 15 percent. Nevertheless, Consolidated’s board of directors has approved an annual salary of more than $1 million for our company’s chief executive officer. The present board members should be replaced because they are unconcerned about the increasing costs of employee benefits and
salaries, in spite of the company’s problems generating income.”
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
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去年计算机硬件部分,利润明显低于计划目标,生产线从20条减到5条,而给员工福利的支持增加了15%。然而,Consolidated的董事会已经批准了一个给我们公司主要执行官员的超过100万$的年度工资。现在的董事会成员应该被替换,因为除了公司的盈利能力问题,他们还对增加的雇员工资和福利成本不关心。